Etienne Balibar / Michael Heinrich (26.4-28.4)

Dear all, the University of Dundee Philosophy Speaker Series supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy will continue at the end of April with two major events and there are still places you can register for: — Prof Etienne Balibar will give his first lecture in Scotland ever on “The Future of Racism” on the …

New issue of Parrhesia published

The editors of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of issue 37. Parrhesia is part of Open Humanities Press, and can be freely accessed online. Full issue here. Contents Features Mary Graham The Law of Obligation, Aboriginal Ethics: Australia Becoming, Australia Dreaming PDF Marcel Gauchet; trans. Natalie J. Doyle …

Book Launch: Contingency and Plasticity

You are most warmly invited to join us to celebrate the launch of Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies. The book is the latest volume in Roman and Littlefield’s pathbreaking ‘Media Philosophy’ series, and is edited by Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell, and Dominic Smith. The launch will take place ONLINE ONLY, from 13.00-14.00 UK TIME, …

New book out! Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference

This is with great pleasure that we announce the release of a great and exciting book on Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference, published with De Gruyter. It has been edited by Dr. Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee) and Dr. Andrea Rehberg (University of Newcastle). https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110688436/html#overview About this book: The question of Nietzsche’s use of …

Special Issue of Parrhesia on Bergson

We are pleased to annonce that the Special Issue of Parrhesia on Bergson and vitalism(s) is now out and available : https://parrhesiajournal.org/index.php/parr/issue/view/40 In this volume, you will find : Mathilde Tahar, “Bergson’s Vitalisms”Charles Wolfe, “The Discreet Charm of Hippocratism: Archaic Revival or Avant-Garde Vitalism?”Bruno Rates, “Bergson, Lovejoy and Radical Vitalism”Tano S. Posteraro, “Vitalism, Individuation, and …

Event : ScotPhil Association – Analytic and Continental Encounters

The University of Dundee is delighted to host the Scots Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting. The Scots Philosophical Association is the professional association of philosophers in Scotland. Its primary purpose is to promote the study and teaching of philosophy in Scotland. It will take place on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th December at Dalhousie Building. …

BICAR Summer School 2022 – Critique and the Desire of Modernity

June 6-17 Barzakh, Beirut The Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR) will host its first summer school in Lebanon this June. The summer school is open to international and local students. It is intended as a pedagogical intervention at a catastrophic moment in Lebanon’s history. With economic collapse, severe shortages of fuel, electricity, …

‘Dynamic Realism. Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy’ by Tina Röck

About the book: Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Tina Röck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations are both complex and problematic as we attempt to reconceptualise being, truth and knowledge as processual. To navigate this thinking, Röck takes a new …